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Rich Pauloo
I have developed groundwater flow and contaminant transport models, made pipelines that process and display environmental data from remote sensor networks in near-real time, created interactive dashboards that make sense of massive datasets, and built packages for R.
Currently searching for positions in government and industry where I can work on challenging, data-intensive issues facing California’s water future.
Education
University of California Berkeley
B.S., Integrative Biology
Berkeley, CA
2006 - 2011
Conflict Resolution minor
University of California Davis
Ph.D. Candidate, Hydrogeology
Davis, CA
2015 - 2020
- Dissertation on developing regional scale groundwater quality management models.
- NSF Fellow
- Elected member of Graduate Student Assembly
- Affiliate of the UC Davis Data Lab
Selected Research Experience
Graduate Student Researcher
Fogg Laboratory
University of California Davis
2015 - 2020
- Developed methods to efficiently upscale contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media.
- Built tools to process and visualize real-time sensor data.
Data Science Researcher
Computational Institute for Geodynamics
University of California Davis
2019
- NLP, text mining, and network analysis on a corpus of 600 unique PDFs. Developed a dashboard to understand the corpous.
- Results are published here.
Selected Professional Experience
Site Manager & Environmental Science Educator
NatureBridge
Yosemite National Park & the Marin Headlands
2012 - 2015
- Coordinated with Operations to run a 200-student campus with 60 employees.
- Served as primary liaison between the organization and clients.
- Taught environmental science programs and designed curriculum.
Expedition Leader
National Geographic & Adventures Cross Country
Thailand
2015 - 2016
- Coordinated all aspects of multi-week international travel.
- Facilitated teambuilding and group dynamics.
Data Engineer
UC Water
University of California Davis
2018 - 2020
- Constructed a data processing pipeline and web dashboard to stream real-time groundwater data via a wireless sensor network.
Grants and Awards
NSF-IGERT in Climate Change, Water, and Society
$111,000
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2015
NSF-GRFP Honorable Mention
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2016
Big Data Hub Early Career Data Science Researcher Award
$1,000
N/A
2018
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
I regularly blog about data science, visualization, machine learning, and water issues in California on my blog
Assessing Impact of Outreach through Software Citation for Community Software in Geodynamics.
Computing in Science & Engineering. PP. 1-1. 10.1109/MCSE.2019.2940221.
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2019
Hwang, L. & Pauloo, R. & Carlen, J.
Domestic Well Vulnerability to Drought Duration and Unsustainable Groundwater Management in California’s Central Valley. (submitted)
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2019
Pauloo, R. & Dahlke, H. & Escriva-Bou, A. & Fencl, A. &H. Guillon & Fogg, G.E.
Groundwater Development Induced Basin Closure: An Unrecognized Threat to Water Quality Sustainability. (in preparation)
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2019
Pauloo, R. & Guo, Z. & Fogg G.E.
An Overview of Domestic Well Data in California’s Central Valley: Opportunities for Informed Risk Assessment.
California Environmental Protection Agency. Sacramento, CA
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2019
Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Escriva-Bou, A. & Fencl, A. & Guillon, H.
Upscaling Regional, 3D, Non-Fickian Solute Transport with 2D Equivalent Models.
American Geophysical Union. #H43I-2582. Washington, DC
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2018
Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Guo, Z. & Henri, C.V.
An Interactive Mapping Interface to the California Online State Well Completion Report Database
UC Water Annual Meeting. Sacramento, CA
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2018
Pauloo, R.
Basin Scale Groundwater Quality Management Modeling: Methods to Upscale the Advection Dispersion Equation.
American Geophysical Union. #H51G-1360. New Orleans, LA
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2017
Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Guo, Z. & Henri, C.V.
The Past Present and Future: Long-term climate trends and water management history in California.
Water Scarcity in the West: Past Present and Future. Davis, CA
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2015
Pauloo, R. & Pinheiro, M.